Meeting with the dead

It was 11:30pm , I was in a very deep sleep somehow my hand wandered over and dropped on my table with my phone and a little flower vase on it, all of a sudden I felt like the table gave a little movement, all I can think was someone crawling under it, as the season being Halloween season I can't help imagining stuff like that, in fact watching all the old horror movies from moms DVD set is also a reason. In fraction of second I grabbed my blanket and pushed my self to the corner of the bed, but then I noticed my phone vibrating, I let out a huge sigh of relief and picked up the phone, it was Daisy, she called me to come over to her place, she seemed tensed, or I don't know if it was excitement. But, these kind of things aren't unusual for me, she did that many times. Being a 17year old I guess I can walk down the street myself at midnight.

Daisy was my friend since 3rd grade, we are going strong for years, she is charming, blonde, a bit mischievous and addicted to social media, she do have a good heart though and then there is me, not so interested in social media, introvert, boring.

I tied my shoes, opened our entrance door slowly to sneak out. I am on my way to Daisy's house, I kind of have to look around and walk carefully, every year Mr. Watson comes in a different costume to scare people away, and yeah even if it's 12AM , but I expected him to be not there and walked by their house, and then I felt something brush my shoulder, I screamed out loud, that was Mr. Watson in a werewolf costume, he looked funny though then he shushed me and laughed straight for 3 minutes and I stood there giving him a "well played" and annoyed look, after he is done laughing he enquired me about my tip toeing towards down street, I just said that I have to go to Daisy house and it is a emergency, though he kept a "really?" expression, he walked me down to Daisy's house chatting about his new , as it is not so far from his house, I thanked him and went towards her house.

She warned me not to press the door bell, instead just knock the door because it would wake the whole family up, I knocked the door and no one responded so, I stood there in silence. My eyes started wandering here and there and then I found someone walking on the road, uh huh there she is, I ran towards her and gave a tap on her shoulder, I expected her to scream and act dramatic like she is, but she turned around and gave me a sarcastic smile. I asked her what she was doing on the road, she replied that she was waiting for me.

I said "Well, Daisy why do you want me here" with a deep voice. "I saw this new challenge on Instagram "#gotograveyard" and" before she could complete the sentence I understood what she is going to say and I replied "No, no way we are going to spend night over there, I mean you don't need to make this little social media life of yours real". Then she started pleasing me a lot, it's not like I am afraid of graveyard or something but, it just doesn't feel good over there. After 15 minutes of arguing we decided to go there, and if any thing goes wrong we are going to come back, she started to squeal with excitement after I said that, but I still didn't like that idea though.

We started walking down the road to the grave yard it takes 15 minutes to reach their and it was 12:13am, to break the silence we started a conversation. ''what if Scarlett's dad sees us?" I asked, "who that book worm's dad", "yeah" , "Kristen, you are thinking too much" she said, "Daisy, he works in a restaurant and comes late at night" "it wont be a issue" "Yeah, until he sees us and complains to our moms" "It wont go that far girl, stop thinking" she exclaimed, rolling her eyes, I shrugged copying her.

When we were almost near, Daisy removed her camera and started recording us starting with "Hey guys, we are going to the grave yard and taking up the challenge" she continued her recording in the middle I felt like having some gum, of course she always had one, I ate it put the wrapper in my pocket. We started decreasing our pace when we got near to the grave yard, and then we saw some car lights flashing, it was Scarlett's dad!. He came towards us "What are you doing here?" he asked me, I said that we are going to get medicine for my mom, he nodded with that weird look and left, I turned towards Daisy and gave here grumpy look, she just gave a little smile and started walking towards the grave yard.

We went into the graveyard and hid beside a random grave and Daisy was still recording. nearly 1 hour passed and I sat their shivering, not sure if it was because of cold or fear but, Daisy was stiff and confident. After sometime we saw a random figure moving here and there, nearly height of my knees, I started screaming loud, we both got up in a hurry and Daisy started pointing her flashlight towards that creature, "it is a dog, idiot" she scolded me, I just looked at her giving a awkward smile, before we set to seat down again the graveyard guard came to look what happened with his flash light, we started to run from there and finally came near Daisy's house and Daisy was still recording it, after running so far we just sopped and started laughing about the weird experience. As it was almost 2am we waved our goodbyes and left to our houses

The next day I left to school, I saw Daisy near the lockers we greeted each other. "Yesterday was crazy" I said, "Did you go somewhere" she asked, "wow, did you drink after coming from the graveyard or something" "What, you went to grave yard while I was at my grandmas house" she said, I remember her telling me that she was going to her grandma's that day, as my memory was not that clear about that nights incident I just thought it was a dream and carried on with my work

That night Daisy came to my house to sleepover as it was weekend, it was almost 11:30pm by the time we completed cracking jokes and chit chatting, we were ready to sleep and then my phone rang and it was Scarlett, "She need notes, maybe" said Daisy, "Obviously" I shrugged. After lifting up the call she immediately asked me for the notes, and I sent them to her, and then she called me again "Hey, my dad said you were going all alone to get medicine for your mom at night, hope she's fine" she said and cut the call, my hands froze "All alone?" I said to myself, "what's with you" questioned Daisy, I said it was nothing and went to my closet to check the jeans I wore last night and yes, sure there was chewing gum wrapper in it and then I got a call again, but this time it was from Daisy, I was shocked completely and I picked up the phone "I am in front of your house, yesterday was fun, lets do that again" The voice said and when I looked towards my side there was Daisy and I looked through the window I was shocked to see Daisy standing over there in the dark but, this time looking at her didn't feel right, It felt different... Who is she, if Daisy is sitting right beside me?

Happy Halloween